Everything is as it should be in the drawings… a globe in green and blue, a yellow school bus in motion, multi-hued birds perched on a branch beneath blue clouds and a shining sun.
What is missing? The children who brought that fragile order into being and gave visual form to a world they saw as full of colour.
Framed in innocence and hope, the drawings on display at the Iranian Embassy belonged to children killed when a school in Minab, Iran, was bombed into rubble on February 28 — the day the Iran-US-Israel war broke out. Around 160 children, aged five to seven, were killed.
The exhibition, titled “Minab Children Still Draw the Sun”, ended earlier this week. It was an art show unlike any other, less a celebration of the creations and more a mourning of their creators.
The artworks were found in school bags buried under the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school by Red Crescent teams, then scanned and sent to the Iranian Embassy in New Delhi as well as many others across the world.
Photo credits: PTI